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Norco plans to award a contract to study the environmental impacts of building a horse manure-to-energy conversion plant.

The Norco City Council is scheduled to vote on the matter at 7 p.m. Wednesday at a meeting at council chambers, 2870 Clark Ave., Norco.

The $142,000 contract is expected to be awarded to K.S. Dunbar and Associates for the conversion facility that would be built at the Western Riverside County Regional Wastewater Authority facility at 14634 River Road, a wastewater treatment plant.

The report is due to the city by Sept. 6. The estimated $36 million plant would take about 1Â½ years to build and could dispose of the roughly 65 tons of horse manure produced daily in Norco by the city's 17,000 horses.

In an unrelated item, an update report is expected on the cleanup of the Wyle lab property, the former Wyle Laboratories in Norco. Extraction wells have been removing contaminants at the 429-acre Hillside Avenue site that was used to test defense and aerospace products from 1957 to 2004.

The Department of Toxic Substances has been overseeing the cleanup that Wyle is paying for.

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